1925

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  • ? - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is published.
  • ? - Tolkien moves from Leeds to Oxford where he is elected Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon.

August

  • 23 - The first recorded date in the writing of the Lay of Leithian, at Line 557.

October

  • 21 - Tolkien submits his resignation from Leeds, his employment officially ended December 31, 1925.